Friday 30 January 2015

Upon Inspection

What if it's true? What if the commercial schools really are not very good, or even any good? They have been academically dreadful for prolonged periods in the past. The present Government is drawn heavily from them, and look at that.

After all, in England, no one has ever bothered to check. They "inspect" themselves. Well, they inspect each other. But that amounts to the same thing.

At the very least, let the condition of a commercial school's continuing charitable status be its having been adjudged satisfactory or better by Ofsted, using the same criteria as for state schools, with the reports published, and with the value-added measure applied, thereby requiring those schools to have demonstrated how they had improved pupils' abilities.

Oh, and forget the drivel in the Daily Mail, great expert on the North East that it is, about the Durham Free School. It was closed for being rubbish. Simple as that. Indeed, the entire free schools programme has been an unmitigated disaster. Primary legislation ought to surcharge David Cameron, Michael Gove and Toby Young personally for the cost of it.

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  1. DFS only had 30 pupils, and 18 of them were suspended. Worst school ever, and we all paid for it.

    If public school heads were in the state sector this week, they would be looking at forced academisation, if not special measures. Imagine that. Special measures.

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    1. Just imagine it.

      Or imagine what the defenders of DFS would say about a comp at which 60 per cent of the pupils had been suspended.

      Free schools, the only specific Conservative policy on anything at the last General Election, are utterly failed and discredited.

      One Secretary of State for Education has already been sacked, and another one ought to be.

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  2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-31008415

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